Just another happy rag by one of them broads.

Black Paint

Did you ever sit and watch paint dry? I have done this for the past twenty minutes. I find it a fascinating process. Every once in a while I get up to touch it to see if it is getting any drier yet. Some parts of it are, so that is good.

I have sanded the coffee table and painted the first layer on it. It was a pretty easy job and I am amazingly free of paint. I did wear a very old jacket over my good clothes in case of spills. The cats are looking at me with some curiosity, but so far, they have stayed away from the wet parts. Jesker thinks we ought to go out. He thinks I am boring.

It needs another layer of paint and I am waiting to do that. In the meantime, I should be doing other things, but I am riveted by the drying paint. It should be dry to the touch in 1-2 hours. So that means that the top of the table will be dry now. I don’t want to rush things and I will really clean up the kitchen first and make the bed and do some other housewifely things first before I grab those brushes again. I do like black paint and I like it ever so much better than mahogany stain. I am thinking about painting the dresser that the TV stands on black also, with maybe metal knobs on the drawers. Make it look real modern and sleek.

I like painting better than staining wood. Staining wood is not very gratifying as it is a messy job and not so uniformly easy to apply. There is much trickery to it. Our dining room table looks okay if you don’t look at it too closely, but a professional would see all the mistakes I made. I want to get some old fashioned wax and give the top of it a real good shine. After I fix some of the obvious errors.

I forgot that I was such a handy woman. Once I get my mind set on something, I really do go and get it done. I used to wallpaper in the olden days, when I was young and foolish. I painted whole rooms too. I once built a coffee table with tiles in it and everything, grouted and all. Those were the days.

Well, I’ll go now and do the housewife chores and then hopefully paint some more. Wish me luck on my second coat. Life is too short to wait for paint to dry, after all.

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snap, I remember making a mosaic-topped table – absorbing. I like DIY for that, but it is frustrating when it doesn’t look as hoped once the work is done.Hope the second coat was as fascinating as the first!

Oh, and by the way I am dying to know what fabric you bought from Ikea. Their fabric is always so enticing. I too have Ikea curtains — although they were pre-made. It’s a beautiful leafy pattern, but sadly, its colors don’t quite jive with my living room as I had hoped. Still, I love the fabric so much. This is one of those times I could see myself redoing everything just to suit the curtains. $$$…ARG!

I love that Ikea fabric too! But my “curtains” are the woods outside and so even Ikea can’t compete with that. I admire you, Irene, for taking this redecorating on and giving it a spin. I’d love to see how all turns out, but really, your descriptions are so accurate that I doubt that I’d be surprised.